"an ""excellently performed bit of story-telling"". The review praised Alfred Hitchcock as ""one of England's ablest and most imaginative film makers"" and stated that Peter Lorre ""lacks the opportunity to be the one-man chamber of horrors that he was in [""M""]"" but ""is certainly something to be seen"", comparing him favourably to actor Charles Laughton. The film has an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1934 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Peter Lorre, and released by Gaumont British. It was one of"
"get away with it. The fact that many scenes of the film were set in a cinema allowed Hitchcock to include references to contemporary films and storylines. Perhaps the most famous of these is the final film sequence, an excerpt from a Walt Disney Silly Symphony ""Who Killed Cock Robin?"" (1935). Sabotage (1936 film) Sabotage, also released as The Woman Alone, is a 1936 British espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, and John Loder. It is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel ""The Secret Agent"", about a woman who discovers that her husband,"
"Secret Agent (1936 film) Secret Agent is a 1936 British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on two stories in """" by W. Somerset Maugham. The film starred Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Gielgud, and Robert Young. Future star Michael Redgrave made a brief, uncredited appearance; he would play the male lead in Hitchcock's ""The Lady Vanishes"" (1938). The work was also Michael Rennie's film debut (though an uncredited one). Typical Hitchcockian themes used in ""Secret Agent"" include mistaken identity and murder. On 10 May 1916, during the First World War, British Captain and novelist Edgar Brodie (Gielgud) returns"
"Rope (film) Rope is a 1948 American psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton. The film was adapted by Hume Cronyn with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents. The film was produced by Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions. Starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger, this is the first of Hitchcock's Technicolor films, and is notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as a single continuous shot through the use of long takes."
"Under Capricorn Under Capricorn is a 1949 British historical thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock about a couple in Australia who started out as lady and stable boy in Ireland, and who are now bound together by a horrible secret. The film was based on the novel ""Under Capricorn"" (1937) by Helen Simpson, with a screenplay by James Bridie. It was adapted to the screen by Hume Cronyn. This was Hitchcock's second film in Technicolor, and like the preceding color film ""Rope"" (1948), it also featured 10-minute takes. The film is set in colonial Sydney, New South Wales, Australia during"
"director's surviving silent films. Like Hitchcock's other British films, all of which are copyrighted worldwide, ""Easy Virtue"" has been heavily bootleged on home video. As of October 2018, the restored version has only appeared on DVD and Blu-ray from Elephant Films in France. Easy Virtue (1928 film) Easy Virtue is a 1928 British silent romance film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall and Ian Hunter. The movie is loosely based on the 1924 play ""Easy Virtue"" by Noël Coward. It was made at the Islington Studios in London. The film's art direction is by Clifford Pember."
"The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog is a 1927 British silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen, and Ivor Novello. Hitchcock's third feature film, it was released on 14 February 1927 in London and on 10 June 1928 in New York City. Based on the novel ""The Lodger"" by Marie Belloc Lowndes and the play ""Who Is He?"" co-written by Belloc Lowndes, the film is about the hunt for a ""Jack the Ripper""-like serial killer in London. A young blonde woman,"
"the raison d'être of Sidney Bernstein and Hitchcock's first co-production, the experimental ""Rope"", starring James Stewart. In 1945–46, Bernstein formed Transatlantic Pictures in partnership with Alfred Hitchcock in preparation for the end of Hitchcock's contract with David O. Selznick in 1947. Bernstein was an uncredited producer on two of Hitchcock's films, ""Rope"" (1948), filmed in Hollywood, and ""Under Capricorn"" (1949) filmed at MGM-British in Borehamwood, near London. Hitchcock's ""Stage Fright"" (1950) started out as a Transatlantic production, but became a Warner Brothers production after the failure of ""Under Capricorn"". In 1954, Bernstein and Hitchcock dissolved their partnership, after one final"
"setup, deliberately not disguising the cut. A description of the beginning and end of each segment follows. Hitchcock told François Truffaut in the book-length ""Hitchcock/Truffaut"" (Simon & Schuster, 1967) that he ended up re-shooting the last four or five segments because he was dissatisfied with the color of the sunset. Hitchcock used this long-take approach again to a lesser extent on his next film, ""Under Capricorn"" (1949) and in a very limited way in his film ""Stage Fright"" (1950). Alfred Hitchcock's cameo is a signature occurrence in most of his films. In this film, Hitchcock is considered to make two"
"Paramount Pictures. The two films, however, are very different in tone, in setting, and in many plot details. In the book-length interview ""Hitchcock/Truffaut"" (1967), in response to fellow filmmaker François Truffaut's assertion that aspects of the remake were by far superior, Hitchcock replied, ""Let's say the first version is the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional."" The 1934 film has nothing except the title in common with G. K. Chesterton's 1922 book of detective stories of the same name. Hitchcock decided to use the title because he held the film rights for some"
"voted the fifth best British film of 1936. It currently has a 90% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with Geoff Andrew of ""Time Out"" writing, ""This thriller may not be one of Hitchcock's best English films, but it is full of startling set pieces and quirky characterisation."" Secret Agent (1936 film) Secret Agent is a 1936 British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on two stories in """" by W. Somerset Maugham. The film starred Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Gielgud, and Robert Young. Future star Michael Redgrave made a brief, uncredited appearance; he would play the male lead"
"Dial M for Murder Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American crime mystery film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings and John Williams. Both the screenplay and the successful stage play on which it was based were written by English playwright Frederick Knott. The play premiered in 1952 on BBC Television, before being performed on stage in the same year in London's West End in June, and then New York's Broadway in October. Originally intended to be shown in dual-strip polarized 3-D, the film played in most theatres in ordinary 2-D due to the"
"and became a big hit for her. They play a couple whose son is kidnapped to prevent them from interfering with an assassination. As in the 1934 film, the climax takes place at the Royal Albert Hall, London. ""The Wrong Man"" (1957), Hitchcock's final film for Warner Bros., is a low-key black-and-white production based on a real-life case of mistaken identity reported in ""Life"" magazine in 1953. This was the only film of Hitchcock to star Henry Fonda, playing a Stork Club musician mistaken for a liquor store thief, who is arrested and tried for robbery while his wife (Vera"
"The Red Widow The Red Widow is a lost 1916 silent comedy film produced by Famous Players-Lasky, distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was based on a 1911 Broadway musical play ""The Red Widow"" by Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf and starring comedian Raymond Hitchcock. John Barrymore stars in this film in the Hitchcock part of Cicero Butts. Hitchcock's wife, Flora Zabelle, is the leading lady in this film. This particular comedy was shot twice. The negative for the first version burned up in a nitrate fire before prints were made. This was probably the same Famous Players fire of"
"blonde, who at first appears erotically remote, later emerges as down-to-earth and approachable (see ""Family Plot""). The Pleasure Garden (film) The Pleasure Garden is a 1925 British silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his directorial debut. Based on a novel by Oliver Sandys, the film is about two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre in London and their troubled relationships. Jill, a young dancer, arrives in London with a letter of introduction to Mr. Hamilton, proprietor of the Pleasure Garden Theatre. The letter and all her money are stolen from her handbag as she waits to see him."
"Hitchcock in 1951, and Hitchcock was in the midst of dissolving his partnership in Transatlantic Pictures with Sidney Bernstein.) In the original screenplay, following the source play, the priest and his lover had an illegitimate baby, and the priest was executed at the end of the film. These elements of the script were removed at the insistence of executives at Warner Brothers who feared a negative reaction. Hitchcock first hired Anita Björk as the female lead after seeing her in ""Miss Julie"" (1951). However, when she arrived in Hollywood with her lover and their baby, Warner Bros. insisted that Hitchcock"
"The Pleasure Garden (film) The Pleasure Garden is a 1925 British silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his directorial debut. Based on a novel by Oliver Sandys, the film is about two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre in London and their troubled relationships. Jill, a young dancer, arrives in London with a letter of introduction to Mr. Hamilton, proprietor of the Pleasure Garden Theatre. The letter and all her money are stolen from her handbag as she waits to see him. Patsy, a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden, sees her difficulty and offers to take her"
"play he's a pointless drunk with no political character, and so on. Juno and the Paycock (film) Juno and the Paycock is a 1930 British film written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Barry Fitzgerald, Maire O'Neill, Edward Chapman and Sara Allgood. The film was based on the successful play of the same name by Seán O'Casey. Barry Fitzgerald, who played Captain Jack Boyle in the original stage production, appears as an orator in the first scene, but has no other role. In the slums of Dublin during the Irish Civil War, Captain Boyle (Edward Chapman) lives in a"
"stairs counting each one as he ascends. Once he reaches the top he finds a brick wall. Instead of climbing back down, Grover slides down the banister. The 39 Steps (1935 film) The 39 Steps is a 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. The film is very loosely based on the 1915 adventure novel ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" by John Buchan. It is about an everyman civilian in London, Richard Hannay, who becomes caught up in preventing an organization of spies called the 39 Steps from stealing British military secrets. After being"
"her, Alfred Hitchcock's uncle John Hitchcock had also provided funds. Greet's generosity was something the director never forgot, and she appeared in more Hitchcock films than any other performer (other than Leo G. Carroll, who also appeared in six Hitchcock films): ""The Ring"" (1927), ""The Manxman"" (1929), ""Murder!"" (1930), ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"" (1934), ""Sabotage"" (1936), and ""Jamaica Inn"" (1939). Number 13 (film) In 1922, Alfred Hitchcock obtained his first shot at directing for Gainsborough Pictures with the film Number 13 (or Mrs. Peabody). Clare Greet and Ernest Thesiger were to star as husband and wife. The story"
"The Skin Game (1931 film) The Skin Game is a 1931 British feature film by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a play by John Galsworthy and produced by British International Pictures. The story revolves around two rival families, the Hillcrists and the Hornblowers, and the disastrous results of the feud between them. Edmund Gwenn and Helen Haye reprised their respective roles as Mr. Hornblower and Mrs. Hillcrist from the 1921 silent version. The plot concerns a feud between two affluent families, the long-established (upper class) Hillcrists, played by C.V. France, Helen Haye, and Jill Esmond, and the ""nouveau riche"" (formerly working"
"became ""The Alfred Hitchcock Hour"" in 1962, and NBC broadcast the final episode on 10 May 1965. In the 1980s, a new version of ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"" was produced for television, making use of Hitchcock's original introductions in a colourised form. In 1955 Hitchcock became a United States citizen. The same year, his third Grace Kelly film, ""To Catch a Thief"", was released; it is set in the French Riviera, and pairs Kelly with Cary Grant. Grant plays retired thief John Robie, who becomes the prime suspect for a spate of robberies in the Riviera. A thrill-seeking American heiress played"
"latter was Hitchcock's directorial debut. In 1926–7 he made a series of pioneering sound films. Later he collaborated with Alma Reville, Hitchcock's wife, on the script of ""The First Born"" (1928), his feature debut as director, in which he co-starred with Madeleine Carroll. Carroll reappeared in his third film, ""Fascination"" (1931). Mander is better remembered for his character portrayals of oily villains, many of them English gentlemen or upper crust cads – such as Cardinal Richelieu in the musical film ""The Three Musketeers"" (1939), a spoof in which the Ritz Brothers played lackeys who substituted for the real Musketeers. In"
"the world"". In 1992, the British Film Institute released its first ""Missing Presumed Lost"" list of films, and in January 2010 they announced that they had begun actively searching for some 75 missing films, including ""The Mountain Eagle""; ""A Study in Scarlet"" (1914), which features the first screen appearance of the Sherlock Holmes character; ""The First Men in the Moon"" (1919), which is the first H. G. Wells-adapted science-fiction; and Dinah Shurey's ""The Last Post"" (1929). The Mountain Eagle The Mountain Eagle is a 1926 British silent film, and Alfred Hitchcock's second as director, following ""The Pleasure Garden"". The film,"
"Juno and the Paycock (film) Juno and the Paycock is a 1930 British film written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Barry Fitzgerald, Maire O'Neill, Edward Chapman and Sara Allgood. The film was based on the successful play of the same name by Seán O'Casey. Barry Fitzgerald, who played Captain Jack Boyle in the original stage production, appears as an orator in the first scene, but has no other role. In the slums of Dublin during the Irish Civil War, Captain Boyle (Edward Chapman) lives in a two-room tenement flat with his wife Juno (Sara Allgood) and their two"
"has been remade by Bollywood twice — as ""Kohra"" (1964), starring Waheeda Rehman and Biswajit Chatterjee; and as ""Anamika"" (2008), starring Dino Morea, Minissha Lamba and Koena Mitra. In 2018, it was reported that Netflix would be creating a new remake of the film, which would be directed by Ben Wheatley, and written by Jane Goldman. Lily James and Armie Hammer are set to star. Streaming audio Rebecca (1940 film) Rebecca is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was Hitchcock's first American project, and his first film under contract with producer David O. Selznick."
"Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941 film) Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 1941 American screwball comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Norman Krasna, and starring Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery. It also features Gene Raymond, Jack Carson, Philip Merivale, and Lucile Watson. While Hitchcock later claimed he directed the film—the only pure comedy he made in America—as a favor to Lombard, the files at RKO Radio Pictures show that Hitchcock himself pursued the project. Ann (Carole Lombard) and David Smith (Robert Montgomery) are a married couple living in New York City who, though in love, have disagreements that"
"player Robert Cummings and Priscilla Lane, a freelancer who signed a one-picture deal with Universal, both known for their work in comedies and light dramas. Breaking with Hollywood conventions of the time, Hitchcock did extensive location filming, especially in New York City, and depicted a confrontation between a suspected saboteur (Cummings) and a real saboteur (Norman Lloyd) atop the Statue of Liberty. He also directed ""Have You Heard?"" (1942), a photographic dramatisation for ""Life"" magazine of the dangers of rumours during wartime. In 1943 he wrote a mystery story for ""Look"" magazine, ""The Murder of Monty Woolley"", a sequence of"
"a most critical juncture, at which both sisters, Robin, and the father meet at a Paris boîte and are about to realize who each other is. There are several multiple exposures when the two sisters, both played by Betty Compson are on screen at once, which are skillfully done. The film is based on the novel ""Children of Chance"" by Michael Morton. Alfred Hitchcock collaborated with Cutts on the film. Cutts and Hitchcock made the film quickly, as they wanted to make use of Betty Compson, who had appeared in their hit ""Woman to Woman"" (also 1923), before she returned"
"upcoming film, which was due for a theatrical release the next month. Both Marshall and Hitchcock decided on the same story to bring to the airwaves, which happened to be a favorite of both of them: Marie Belloc Lowndes' ""The Lodger."" Alfred Hitchcock had filmed this story for Gainsborough in 1926, and since then it had remained as one of his favorites. Herbert Marshall portrayed the mysterious lodger, and co-starring with him were Edmund Gwenn and character actress Lurene Tuttle as the rooming-house keepers who start to suspect that their new boarder might be the notorious Jack-the-Ripper. [Gwenn was actually"
"to the studio and a secretary was hired to manage it (Edwards 66). Now and Forever (1934 film) Now and Forever is a 1934 American drama film directed by Henry Hathaway. The screenplay by Vincent Lawrence and Sylvia Thalberg was based on a story by Jack Kirkland and Melville Baker. The film stars Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, and Shirley Temple in a story about a criminal going straight for his child's sake. Temple sang ""The World Owes Me a Living"". The film was critically well received. Temple adored Cooper who nicknamed her 'Wigglebritches' (Windeler 140). This is the only film"
"noteworthy that it may definitely be recommended to all film-viewers."" In Peter Bogdanovich's interview with Alfred Hitchcock, Bogdanovich mentions that French critics writing for ""Cahiers du cinéma"" in the 1950s considered ""Under Capricorn"" one of Hitchcock's finest films. Under Capricorn Under Capricorn is a 1949 British historical thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock about a couple in Australia who started out as lady and stable boy in Ireland, and who are now bound together by a horrible secret. The film was based on the novel ""Under Capricorn"" (1937) by Helen Simpson, with a screenplay by James Bridie. It was adapted"
"Do You Like Hitchcock? Do You Like Hitchcock? (orig. Ti piace Hitchcock?) is a 2005 made-for-TV giallo film directed by Dario Argento. The film is a homage to the acclaimed thriller film director Alfred Hitchcock. In 1991 Giulio, a young boy bicycling in the woods, spots a woman darting between the trees. He follows her as she is joined by another woman and enters an old stone house. As he peers through the window, he witnesses the women wildly slaughtering a rooster. They spot the boy and chase after him, yelling ""You'll be sorry! I'll kill you! You'll never get"